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The origin of the term 'woke' in Black American English and its early 20th-century usage.

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Jan 27, 2026
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What is woke

began as Black American vernacular signalling being alert to racial injustice and evolved into a broad shorthand for awareness of social inequalities, then into a contested political epithet used both...

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